All Films

Maisha, Maisha Tu

2019 • 58 min • Tanzania

Shot in Tanzania, this feature film shows four different life stories - stories of challenges, opportunities and second chances.

Pusher

2019 • 21 min • United States of America

In a small Appalachian town crippled by opioid addiction, a young drug dealer is coming to terms with the life she's chosen.

The Old Man in the Rocking Chair

2019 • 11 min

A short horror film based on the Italian Giallo films of the 70's & 80's. A young house-keeper of a elderly man in a rocking chair becomes involved in a murderous rampage in an isolated farm house. She will soon reveal the true secret of what is really happening. Dedicated and inspired by the films of: Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and Mario Bava.

Youth

2019 • 11 min • Egypt

A teenager finds herself in new territory after she decides to approach her crush at a party. When they end up alone in his car, she is pushed to consider her own boundaries for the first time.

Zingerle

2019 • 40 min • Italy, Austria

Tyrol/South Tyrol 1950. After being on the run, the rapist and murderer Guido Zingerle is arrested and taken to the police station in Brixen. Ida Hofer works as a secretary at the police station. Unexpectedly confronted with Guido Zingerle she is assailed suddenly by dark memories of her own past.

1,5 Meters Space

2019 • 17 min • Finland

Sinikka has by chance made acquaintance with her downstairs neighbour Vilja and asked her for help. Clutter has taken over Sinikka’s home and there is only a small human-sized pathway left in the apartment. As a window renovation is approaching, Sinikka needs to clear 1,5 meters empty space. A short documentary of friendship and its meaning in giving and receiving help.

Naturales Historiae

2019 • 56 min • Switzerland

The film begins with a volcanic eruption that stranded the director, Pauline Julier, in a foreign city, among strangers. In turns, these strangers evoke legends about the formation of the continents, the blooming of the tectonic plates or the explosion of ash that provoked summers without sun.

Tata Pilo

2019 • 23 min • Philippines

This documentary is about Teofilo Garcia, and expert artisan from San Quintin, Abra, who was awarded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) with the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or National Living Treasure for his dedication to the traditional craft of making gourd, locally called kattukong or tabungaw hat weaving.

Excess Will Save Us

2019 • 14 min • Sweden

In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers.

Woody Guthrie: Three Chords and the Truth

2019 • 59 min

Woody Guthrie is one of America’s legendary songwriters. A voice of the people, he wrote hard-hitting lyrics for a hard-hit nation. His is a tale of survival, creativity and reinvention. He is proof that there is always potential for change and even in 2019, more than fifty years after his death, he is challenging Donald Trump from beyond the grave. With enormous influence on successive generations of musicians like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Billy Bragg, this film proves he has a true place in 21st-century culture.

Confidence Game

2019 • 6 min • United States of America

Bay Area experimental filmmaker Kathleen Quillian’s latest work artfully examines the art of deception for personal gain.

Infinite While It Lasts

2019 • 19 min • Brazil

At a party, Danny and Seiji fall in love. However, Danny believes the differences between them can prove stronger than their feelings.

Bless You

2019 • 7 min • Russia

A girl has fallen victim to a maniac, who wants to get even with her in the most refined manner: extend her cheeks with special medical devices and force her to sneeze so that her eyeballs drop out of their sockets. But we skip this moment and jump in time to the beginning of the story and see, why the girl let the maniac in her house. The reason is pity, which the girl experienced for the man when he sneezed.

Chess

2019 • 6 min • Russia

A chess game in which the pieces are made of plasticine starts begins as per usual, but the board soon turns into total chaos.

Screaming On The Inside

2019 • 8 min • Afghanistan, Canada

A young carpet seller is blackmailed over his sex tapes.

Love Undead

2019 • 19 min • United States of America

Don Beagle is your everyday, hard-working guy. When he and his team are sent to prison for money laundering, Don finds himself living in a cell with Simeon, a cannibal who also happens to be...a zombie? Follow Don as he begins to develop feelings toward Simeon and struggles with his preconceived notions of human-zombie romance in this captivating story of love, passion, and the undead.

Night of the Axe

2019 • 22 min • United States of America

A group of girls having one last get together are stalked one by one by a sadistic, masked killer.

Scenes of a Love Life

2019 • 13 min • Portugal

Variations on a couple, lovemaking and a house.

Ariadne

2019 • 50 min

The fifty-minute piece is set amidst a lightning storm which splices together two realities: a virtual, seaside Italian villa created in Sims, and New York City, shot with a camera. The rupture forms a third suburban, autumnal realm. Ariadne1, of New York and played by the artist, decides she wants to disappear, allowing lightning to transport her into a virtual realm. The simulated Ariadne2 is seen with a red lightning scar upon her chest—a trace of the act, which she carries with her back into the live-action scene that concludes the film.

Retalhos de um Melodrama

2019 • 12 min • Portugal

Alice, a woman with a fear of solitude and an exausting desire to change her life, develops an obsession for the doctor that accompanied her recovery after waking up from a comma. Between an over protective boyfriend and an undependable doctor, Alice faces a choice and the possibility of ending up alone.

All the Fires the Fire

2019 • 25 min • Greece

It’s the hunting season. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. Can a bird’s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

The Hungry Little Wolf

2019 • 9 min • Belgium, France

A cute but over-confident wolf cub decides one day that he is big enough to go hunting on his own. He sets out to find a willing prey, but all those he approaches are too big for him... or rather too cunning. This loose adaptation of a Russian children's tale, The Little Wolf is a tongue-in-cheek romp with lots of laughs at the wolfcub's expense.

On Arbat Street

2019 • 25 min • Russia

After returning after 10 days spent on vacations in vain, high school student Dima intends to accomplish everything he hasn’t decided for a long time.

Receiver

2019 • 15 min • Ireland

A crossed telephone line propels Receiver into a suite of heated and intimate conversations in which we encounter scenes of protest at a university for D/deaf students, Q&A cross-fire interrogation, vocal confrontations and lip-reading practice.In its various moods the film presents a heady and multi-layered assemblage of Deaf histories, to consider how we both speak and listen, and the question of who has the right and capacity to be heard.